On the first week of Donald Trump's second presidency, we report from Washington, D.C., and the frontlines of fire damage in California.

FBI nominee Kash Patel said in his 2023 book that Adam Schiff was one of Washington’s “corrupt actors of the first order.” Thursday, Schiff, now a U.S. senator and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was given the opportunity to grill his detractor. And he did so, relentlessly.

More than $8 million in federal funding will be coming to the Los Angeles region to bolster emergency shelter operations, provide rental assistance, and other services, officials announced Friday. The funding is coming from the U.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Friday that President Trump invited him and California’s other Democratic senator, Alex Padilla, on a visit to California amid the wildfires ravaging in Los ...

Sat, January 25, 2025 at 6:42 AM UTC I was in the packed hall at Davos to hear Trump speak. The audience went from laughter to silence in seconds.

Trump's FBI pick exasperates senators - including one of his potential targets: 'How did we get here?' - ‘History is littered with democracies that lost their freedoms and didn't notice it while it was happening.

LGBTQ groups overall are pleased to have the first gay U.S. Treasury secretary. But that doesn't mean they had uniform reactions to the news of Scott Bessent's U.S. Senate confirmation to the position January 27. President Donald Trump nominated Bessent November 22.

Kash Patel appeared Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing to be FBI director. Patel has been nominated to replace Trump-appointed Christopher Wray, whose resignation took effect on Jan. 20.

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on Wednesday, marking the first legislative win of his second term amid a broader illegal immigration crackdown.

Despite its sanctuary policies, California’s undocumented immigrant population faces more questions and possible detention by federal authorities under new legislation signed into law Wednesday by President Donald Trump. “The law will have an impact on California,” said Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly railed against California’s governor as “Newscum,” spread misinformation about the causes of the Los Angeles fires

Hours before a Trump administration directive was set to freeze an estimated trillions in federal assistance, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday that he is among a coalition filing a lawsuit to halt the freeze.